UTSA staff pictured with the CITE Advisory Board. Front rows (L-R): Lynda de la Vina, dean of UTSA’s College of Business; Paul Castella, chair; Alan Weinkrantz; C. Mauli Agrawal, dean of UTSA’s College of Engineering; John Kirk and Whitney Solcher Miller. Back row (L-R): Dean McCall; William Tolhurst; Lawrence Crynes; Cory Hallam.
UTSA Technology Entrepreneurship Center Names Inaugural Board
By: Wendy Frost
UTSA College of Business
The Center for Innovation and Technology Entrepreneurship (CITE), a joint venture of The University of Texas at San Antonio College of Business and College of Engineering, has named its inaugural advisory board members.
“We are really excited with the creation of the inaugural CITE board as it will play a key role in linking UTSA to the regional technology entrepreneurship ecosystem,” said Cory Hallam, assistant vice president for commercialization, alliances and innovation and CITE’s director.
The board is chaired by Paul Castella, MBA ‘05, managing general partner, Incyte Ventures. Members are Nick Anthony, founder and president, Greektown Restaurants Ltd.; John Bray, lawyer, Cox|Smith; Lawrence Crynes, senior process engineer, Marathon Oil Company; John Kirk, owner, the JFK Firm LLC; Dean McCall, CEO and co-founder, Ideagin; Whitney Solcher Miller, managing director, San Antonio Capital Management LLC; William Tolhurst, BS ‘85, managing director, Quantimum LLC; and Alan Weinkrantz, president, Alan Weinkrantz & Company.
The board is charged with building the profile of CITE, integrating CITE with regional technology entrepreneurship resources and participating in the growth and funding of the center to enable long-term success.
The center sponsors yearly technology entrepreneurship boot camps, student technology business plan competitions and hosts an incubator for new ventures. CITE focuses on fostering the growth of entrepreneurs and new technology-based ventures through a process of education, experiences, resources and support.